This is a big 274 page 28 x 21cm hardback which is big
on content. We'd hoped this would be packed with
unpublished images of Ian's notebooks and we're not
disappointed.

Focussing on his lyrics there's an initial section
with the finished songs featuring the handwritten
version on one page and the typed up version opposite.
This is followed by a large section with handwritten
lyrics to unfinished songs, early versions and other
prose. Finally there's a section with other items from
Ian's archive - book covers, letters from fans, pages
from fanzines etc.

This is clearly a labour of love and Jon Savage
explains in the intro how they selected the images for
the book - generally the most complete version in
Ian's notebooks.

"His lyrics tell
much more than a conversation with him ever could" - Deborah Curtis

Highly recommended

We
interview Jon Savage:

Lee McFadden poses some questions to Jon Savage
regarding the recently published "So this is
Permanence" - a collection of Ian Curtis's lyrics and
writing.

Ian Curtis Facsimile 20 copies
Published 8 December 2014

To complement publication of So this is Permanence,
Ian Curtis’s collected lyrics and notebooks in
facsimile form, Faber Social is offering a limited
edition print of She’s Lost Control exclusive to
customers on the website.The print of the song,
written and recorded in 1979, is signed by Bernard
Sumner, Stephen Morris, Peter Hook, Deborah Curtis
and Jon Savage, editors of the volume of Curtis’s
lyrics. The run is limited to 20 copies only and
comes in a specially designed presentation envelope.
A fantastic gift or purchase for the Joy Division
completist, the handwritten lyric taken from one of
Ian Curtis’s three surviving notebooks represents
the genesis-point of one of the signature tunes in
the Joy Division catalogue.